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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

If we involve a bit of material history we can clear this one right up. Well, nothing is just for one reason, but Iommi pitched down because he lost some fingertips in an industrial accident. That sound was very influential on what followed. Also, a down-pitched guitar sounds nothing like a bass.

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

the lord he giveth... and he taketh away.

Advert for a job position with the title cut off, so that it reads: Senior Lecture in Music (Composition...

The full job title, which reads Senior Lecturer in Music (Composition for Film and Games)

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

my hands are too large for my cup and yet I am too small for this space

me, a man in my early 30s, sat in my cluttered loft work space, gazing intently at the camera. the proportions are unsettling. I'm also wearing odd socks.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The perfect example of analytic philosophy: let's make up a hypothetical that to us (of a certain class/race/gender) seems like an intractable dilemma but for anyone with actual knowledge of the material situation is actually an entirely different issue

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

they're right. it's completely unacceptable to compare ICE to the gestapo. They're more like the einsatzgruppen.

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

hear me out - new tax for super wealthy to prevent hoarding. what you've gained in wealth over the last tax year above a certain threshold, you have to spend in the next or you're taxed something obscene like 95% - spend your money or we spend it for you.

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

at the end of all this artists, writers, poets and musicians will command a rate far in excess of any AI bro and when i'm near retirement I will crawl up a tall tower to collect my yearly wage, look out over my kingdom and raise a toast to my bounty: two jelly beans and a quarter cup of lemonade

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

30-something-year old composers whose music has something to do evil sounds, atmospheres and spaces, embodiment and decay: I can't help but wonder if we might have all been profoundly shaped by roughly the same experience encountering Burial, et. al. in about 2010. Am I right?

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Well this is a bit of a coup! My music on radio 3? Well I never... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

bbc.co.uk

New Music Show - A Kind of Haunting - BBC Sounds

Tom Service speaks to Michael Zev Gordon

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

tell us your compositional journey to date. don't make a list of collaborators, be super specific and tell us all what you did. also mention other things you do apart from composing. BUT can you cram all this in, I dunno, like 1,000 characters?

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Two concerts in Berlin featuring my large-scale bassoon and electronics piece in a matter of weeks! 15th and 17th March, performed by my obnoxiously talented collaborator, Olivia Palmer-Baker!

Olivia Palmer-Baker (bassoon) and John Aulich (composer)
Je Mets Mon Scaphandre, for Bassoon and Live Electronics
15.3.2025 - Doors 18.45 - Start 19.00
FREE ENTRY
CARL-FLESCH-SAAL - UDK BERLIN - BUNDESALLEE 1-12 10719 BERLN
KLANGZEITORT

Olivia Palmer-Baker (bassoon) and John Aulich (composer)
Je Mets Mon Scaphandre, for Bassoon and Live Electronics
15.3.2025 - Doors 19:00 - Start 19:30
ENTRY BY DONATION
PHILIPPISTRASSE 7 - 14059 BERLIN NYT.ART.SPACE
NYT

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

a little research piece on technology in music composition pedagogy, drawing from my own experience but also from those who have been at the coalface an awful lot longer: insamjournal.com/index.php/ij...

insamjournal.com

View of Towards Technological Ecologies as Compositional Environments in the Pedagogy of Acoustic Composition

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

very entertaining but absolutely horrifying watching centrist melts trying to square the nazi salute thing with continuing to be on x surely there is a German word out there for this very specific emotion.

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Equality Amplified @equalityamplified.org.uk · 30/12/2024

We’ve written to the Oxford Literary Festival to question why Helen Joyce is listed under their LGBTQ+ category. Her widely criticised views on trans inclusion make this association both insulting and tone-deaf to the LGBTQ+ community. We’ve asked for this to be corrected.

We are writing on behalf of Equality Amplified, an organisation dedicated to promoting inclusivity and equality for the LGBTQ+ community. We have recently discovered that Helen Joyce is listed under the LGBTQ+ category for the upcoming Oxford Literary Festival. We are deeply concerned about this categorisation.

Helen Joyce, an author and activist known for her controversial views, has been widely criticised for her harmful rhetoric regarding transgender people. Her language and stance on trans inclusion have been damaging to the LGBTQ+ community. For instance, she has made statements that many perceive as insulting, including referring to the transition of gender as a “huge problem” and suggesting that the number of people transitioning should be “reduced.” These views contribute to a harmful narrative that undermines the dignity and rights of transgender individuals.

It is important to clarify that Helen Joyce’s perspectives, while part of a public debate, do not reflect the values of the LGBTQ+ community. Associating her with LGBTQ+ spaces is tone-deaf and risks alienating and insulting many who seek safe, supportive environments.

We also want to highlight that Joyce is not an expert on gender or trans-related matters. Her background in mathematics and journalism does not qualify her to speak authoritatively on such complex issues.

We respectfully request that you reconsider her listing under the LGBTQ+ category at the Oxford Literary Festival. While Joyce has the right to express her opinions, we believe that her inclusion in this context misrepresents the LGBTQ+ community and detracts from its values of inclusion and respect.

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Wonderful to have secured this Goethe-Institut funding to work on a new surround-sound live electronics bassoon project with Olivia Palmer-Baker. www.goethe.de/en/kul/foe/i...

goethe.de

Effusive Boundaries - Goethe-InstitutClaim Goethe InstitutClaim Goethe Institut

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

blusky feature request - let randomers add alt text to images if it's missing. the original poster can approve/disapprove

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

hcmf shorts highlights (no pictures because I forgot): Maija Hynninen's contrabass and electronics piece excellently performed by Heather Roche, and Paul Scully's audiovisual reflection on Bull Island. Also great to have a few (too many) beers with new friends and Niki @nikizohdi.bsky.social

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

twitter trolls all mad we left. radical idea, I know, but I just want to share creative stuff and shoot the shit with people I enjoy being around. it's working. i'm having fun. suck it up, man.

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

(not necessarily in order) cab firm phone operator guy disability note-taker volunteer concert steward computer repair specialist (erstwhile) software engineer

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Dan Elphick @danelphick.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now Early Learning Centre shop staff Building site labourer Toy demonstrator in museum gift shop Live-in gardener Art gallery attendant Concert hall steward Library counter staff Piano teacher

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I'm shit at posting or I'd do it myself, but we need more wholesome new music content. one of the reasons I left twitter is got I got fed up of getting pissed off at what some new york school ego makes of Brian Ferneyhough passages.

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

1. Big new piece in collaboration with a bassoonist (soon to be announced) 2. Monograph reappraising 'new complexity' approaches (such as they are) as fundamentally queer

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

the important question isn’t “did Harris lose because the left is too woke?” it’s “why isn’t Donald Trump in federal prison?” We’re being subjected to lectures about politics by the people who held all of the power and let this dipshit slip through their grasp.

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I need more two-note slurs in my life. Look, buddies!

Two pairs of notes slurred together, making smiley faces

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

If you're in Melbourne over Christmas, please do go! I'll be there in spirit. 'the angles which wound me' was a huge turning point in my creative development... by which I mean my turn towards sci-fi gothic lunacy with filthy sounds and a penchant for exuberant graphic scores.

melbournerecital.com.au

Double Labyrinth - Melbourne Recital Centre

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

New antifascist art challenge: write music that utterly appalls Ivan Hewett, ideally in several dimensions at once.

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Thinking of a newly forming unholy alliance between artists and inoffensive centrist pap, where we 'explore humanity's dark and light sides' as if the best art has to offer in these dark times could just as easily describe Coronation Street.

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I just noticed I have a ton more people following than before. Hi! To introduce myself... composer (I know, another one) largely of chamber music. interests include atmosphere, bodily-felt affect and abjection. you can my stuff on: www.johnaulich.co.uk here's a pretty picture of some of my work

A multicolored graphic score showing a double bass part, a lap steel guitar part and a pipes part, with lots of glissandi, wiggly lines, keywork diagrams and other such nonsense.

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

ask little questions, so that we can talk to one another instead of google for no good reason except one.... because being human is sometimes better than being efficient

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Allister Thompson @allistert.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Art can be a very legitimate and effective form of protest, even at this time in history. But only if we're actually willing to give a flying fuck about supporting each other's art and not just consuming the art product corporations sell to us.

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Things i*n p*ce does not viscerally disapprove of: I*n P*ce

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Drafting my piece for the Legato project... something is emerging in the cello part. May scrap everything else and go from here!

A fairly sparse (by my standards!) soloist cello part with a wide ambit, repeating notes and a fair bit of filigree.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Every time someone says they used chatgpt to find some info, they're actually telling you that they have never been punched hard in the face.

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John Aulich @aulichmusic.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

twitter's a bust. followed the starter pack. I think this is me now.

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